Australia-based MMG is formally withdrawing its 2020 production guidance for the Las Bambas copper mine in Peru, it said on Monday, after the South American country extended a state of emergency to contain the spread of coronavirus.
The miner, which i…
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Glencore’s Katanga Mining sent 350 workers to be repatriated this week after the copper and cobalt miner delayed the commissioning of an acid plant they were working on in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Lualaba province.
Katanga Mining’s 75%-owned su…
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Outsourced workers at Chile’s State-owned Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, on Thursday slammed the miner’s decision to suspend some contract work as a result of increasing restrictions around the coronavirus outbreak.
Codelco on Wednesday…
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TSX-V-listed Sandfire Resources America on Thursday announced that the Black Butte Copper underground mining project in Montana, in the US, has received a record of decision for its permit.
With a mine operating permit in hand, wholly owned subsidiar…
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Global miner BHP confirmed on Thursday two cases of coronavirus at its Escondida copper mine in Chile, the world´s largest.
The company said in a statement that one in-house worker and one contractor had shown symptoms and tested positive. Several ot…
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Australia-based miner MMG Ltd has declared force majeure on supplies from Las Bambas copper mine in Peru, two sources from smelters told Reuters on Thursday.
MMG, owned by China Minmetals, has given notice to customers on their force majeure due to th…
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Chile state copper miner Codelco, the world´s largest, said on Wednesday its production continued in line with its plans despite the measures it has implemented to stave off the spread of coronavirus at its operations.
The company told Reuters in an e…
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Strongbow Exploration Inc. [SBW-TSXV; SBWFF-OTC] reported the discovery of a new zone of high-grade copper-tin…
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TSX-V-listed Strongbow has announced that its drilling partner Cornish Lithium has discovered a new zone of high-grade copper/tin mineralisation at its United Downs exploration project, in Cornwall, UK.
Cornish Lithium has the right to explore Stron…
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Canadian miner First Quantum Minerals has placed its Cobre Panama operation into care-and-maintenance, after the Healthy Ministry of Panama (Minsa) this week ordered the temporary suspension of labour activities at the site.
The order follows the deat…
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